Show LOCAL RS WILL SWILL MEET MELT TODAY Definite Action to be Taken aken Concern Concerning Concerning Concerning ing Trade With Goldfield A BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY SALT LAKE MERCHANT DECRIES ES TIMIDITY AMONG FELLOWS At noon today there will be a meet meeting meeting ing lug of the Ute representatives of the lead lend leading ing iU houses of Salt Lake at the theCo Commercial Co club for the purpose e of considering C L Ie ira 8 proposition relative to the sending Bending in of merchandise dise diett to the Je t district from Utah points over the San Son Pedro route as far faras as am Caliente and thence by b team over the th new wagon road to the leading towns of or if the district This subject was taken up nop some orne time ago go by the Commercial club and Mr lr Marsh was waN requested to make a de detailed detailed detailed tailed report to the club as to the op presented for Cor the lag Ing of trade Mule t in the district but more mo to tu submit to the club the rate at which goods could be laid down at each cacti of the interior towns Mr Marsh arrived in town Sunday anti and after interviewing several s of the leading business s men immen Monday went to toden Ogden den yesterday to submit his views to merchants in that city To lo what decree of or favor the mer mner merchant chants chant of or Salt Lake may maj look upon Mr lr Marshs plans at meeting is something that th t can be determined only after the lie persons per ns attending the meet meeting meeting meeting ing have hac made a thorough canvas oC ot the situation That there Ulue is in a lack Jack of enthusiasm among Salt Lake business businessmen men in connection with the future mer mner call tile development of the Goldfield I district is evident from the fact that few ew houses have haye thus thua far faA f sent representatives into litto that country to job for fOI trade rude Other firms while admitting the thc possibilities to fo be afforded as a soon as all the th San tn an Pedro line is itt in ill full operation are ar chary of or sending men in iii at this tune time because u they do 10 not Relieve believe the trade down there will warrant the ex cx expense pense et Los Angeles San s n nl l and Reno merchants are get set gettinS tins the cream of or the business Says Merchants Are Timid Referring to this matter yesterday esterday the head bead of one firm which has a representative rep rev in the district said The whole trouble with Salt Lake merchants meil hanl is that they Uley are timid Ill ln admit that there is such s ch a necessity as conservatism in lit business but I do donot donot not believe that a business house should always ways be b conservative There i is itt such a a thing as a overdoing it and that is the trouble in this city Now I Iain alit ain as S conservative as most business businessmen men but I think I know a good thing when I see se it t and anti I think this Gold Held project is Js a good tOod one Goldfield to my mind is going to have luwe a great future not ot today or tomorrow but by b degrees I always al ways look askance at sud sudden den booms and am am wary of them but appears to maintain the sound predictions made concerning it when i it was W first discovered and arid for tor that I Irea reason rea on I believe it will have u a L firm steady st ady growth and amid the towns out II timers there will continue to flourish long longa after fter a 1 I have passed away awu For that reason lEason I believe much macli as an do many eastern merchants that if you OU want 1 you OU must mallet go after alter it YoU Tou wont vont always find people coming corning into to t trade of ot their oit oW 1 voli you volition tion 1011 You must go out and show them the goods goob and convince them that you ou have the real redI thing and that you ou can an anundi undersell any of your competitors That Thatis is why I sent one of or our best men down there three weeks ago The initial ex cx expense Pease pense amounted to and of course coun e eI I ran Ian a chance that the business busine S would not Hot warrant that expenditure but I Iam Iam Iam am glad to say that from the day ay my myr representative r got down to woric wo lie hE has picked up many good sized orders orde and nd I the slightest doubt that during the n next month he will build up an extensive trade which I think we will be able to hold against competition from front the coast CORst Low Freight Rate Obtainable There is fI a no use for Salt Lake mer nier merchants mt r chants being slow about this matter for if it they do they will find the ground cut from under them by foreign mer merchants merchants chants We Ve have the goods here lucre and we can lay them theft down at Caliente over the San Pedro road at a low freight fr rate and aud from there to the end or of of the wagon waJon road Mr Marshs teams team will carry lar them at a nominal cost so that they can be laid down at any point from frum Caliente to the terminal at a H price flu fat below that which now obtains by byway byway byway way of Reno Rono Seven local merchants have already alre dy contracted with Mr Marsh Mandl to haul their goods over his I Ia wagon a n road but none of or them has hits made any effort thus titus far to get the business H in the district so as to tu as assure asure sure cute him him of success in his Ills enterprise He lie is a first class cla business man and aut I Ido Idu do du not 1101 blame him for not expending 1500 or 01 in the purchase of if f teams and horses hot and the hire of or men until lie he sees that Utah business busin men are willIng to meet macel him at least halt half halfway way I think however that whEn hen all hands get tt together today tod y the sub subject Jt t will alil iII be fully discussed and the themore more conservative oll merchants will see seethe f e eth the th advantage offered by Mr Marsh hacked backed by o the moral support of the dub club |